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Education, Education, and Education!!!

Making an informed decision is the best method in any decision making process, but how do you get authentic information to make a decision. How not to panic during an unplanned situation? How to get prepared? Only answer is Education, Education, and Education!!! I mean Lamaze classes.

These Lamaze classes are mandatory for all couples who enroll in Birth Village.

Our first Lamaze class was organized for a full day, in the first half we had a training on: (Trained by Reba Daniel)

·       International healthy birth practices

·       Informed decision making

·       Stages of labor

 

In the second half we had a training on:

 

·       The pros and cons of medical Interventions

·       Comfort measures for labor and birth

It was a training with a demo using pelvic skeleton model, role playing and practical demonstration of comfort measures.

Our second class was online coaching about Breastfeeding and Nutrition care.

Our third class was in Birth Village after 36th week, about Postpartum care and Newborn care.

During training it was very clear that the Birth Village offers a good support team that agrees with mother’s choices 100% and one-to-one support birthing with food, liquid, kind words and positive energy.

For me it was all like being in a Hollywood series or high budget Karan Johor’s movie. Never ever I had attended classes for birthing nor seen my friends and family attending one. My feeling was just like the picture below. I was just elevated by one step in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, love and belonging to Esteem (Status and Recognition).  I was like “Choti Choti family mein Bade Bade baatein hoti rehti hai Senorita.” Translate: In small families often big things happens, Senorita


 

After all the educational classes, the buck stops at money! Considering my above comment you will be thinking Birth Village is a costly affair, I was supposed to cover this topic in last section (Decision Making), but I thought, I should also give some education about the cost involved in natural birthing at Birth Village.

Delivery package cost at Birth Village (as on 2020) was 65,000 INR and for VBAC was 75,000 INR (approximately 900 to 1000 USD) additionally we need to stay in 4-6 weeks at Kochi, accommodation cost is around (20,000 to 30,000 INR). Total cost for delivery is around 85,000 to 1 lakh INR.

But this cost is not only for birthing (as in Hospitals Date of admission to Date of Discharge), but and also includes following

  • Regular prenatal consultations from 28th Week (30 to 60 min each)
  • Mandatory Lamaze classes
  • Birth with one-to-one support along with essential food, liquid on the day of delivery
  • Postnatal care (60 min each): three home visits and three consultations with general checkup for Mother and Baby

Birth Village comes under Level-1 nursing home and registered medical facility as per the Government regulations. Bills can be claimed as per Health Insurance guidelines, if you consider the claim amount is 50%, i.e., 50,000 INR, additional amount of 35,000 to 50,000 INR to be borne by family. Cost of Normal Delivery or C-Section with 3 to 5 days of stay at hospital will be more than this and considering after birth trauma, complications and disadvantages to baby, it is worth the money. Moreover every two years we change Smartphone which costs more than this, this is an extraordinary lifetime event.

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